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Site Security Update

Recently, the hosting provider began to offer free “SSL” certificates for sites hosted on their servers. Without going into too much detail, this means that the website address starts with https:\\ instead of http:\\. Some browsers don’t even show that part if the address, but instead might show a lock icon, or say something like “not secure”.

You shouldn’t need to do anything different. Bookmarks/Favorites should still work. Though the only sensitive information a user might be entering is a login, it will be more secure now, as the info will be encrypted. It will have other benefits for the site, as some issues have come up due to the lack of a SSL certificate. Like the sharing icons right below here

Thanks to Website Supporters

Thank you to the following alumni who have donated to help keep this site online for another 3 years:

  • Kathy Doyle Hearn
  • Fred Miller
  • Charlotte P Siebert
  • Diana Mattuzzi
  • Tara Herbster
  • Patty Jones Oughterson
  • Celia Skorinko Weir
  • Bruce A. MacMillan
  • Cheryl Bamford Conte
  • Kathy Hecht Langdon
  • Eileen Legler

Website GoFundMe

Goal reached in 2 hours! Thanks. No further donations needed until 2025.

The post below is just for posterity:

Hi Folks,

It’s been three years and time to renew the hosting for the Wayne Alumni website, now in its 25th year. This website includes the main alumni website, Wayne Central Soccer HIstory, and Wayne Central Basketball History websites. It is $9.99 / month for 36 months, for which I am billed $359.64 and paid upfront (to get the discount). I’m looking to offset some of the cost.

Yes, it can be had cheaper initially, which we did the first three years, but it would require moving the website, which is a huge amount of effort.

I also cover the cost of the domain name separately.

Much work has been done in the last year to restore past content and add new. The Wayne Basketball History site was completely reworked and redesigned.

So I am looking to raise $250 from alumni to help support the website. Smaller donations are preferred.

Thanks to all who have supported this site for the last six years. They are named on the About page on the website.

-Brian Donovan ’74

Sad Ontario History

This is not directly Wayne Central Alumni related. I recently came across this news from 1949. Though I have essentially lived in Ontario all of my life, I had never heard about this before. This happened in 1949, about a week after my brother Tom was born, and 7 years before I was born.

Another part of this sad story is that I knew Bernard and Louise Murphy quite well as they were friends of my parents. It must have been a difficult memory for them as well.

This isn’t the type of history we want to hear about. Fortunately, homicides are rare in Ontario. But next time I visit my parents graves in Calvary Cemetery, I will find Anna’s grave and leave a flower.

It’s been many years and no one knows exactly what transpired, and never will. Seems like today with improved trauma care she may have survived. Sad all the way around.

2022 Staff Retirees – Congratulations

  • Michele Farley
  • Wendy Herrick
  • Elizabeth Peters
  • Jean Stein
  • Sandy Weis
  • Patty Marshall
  • Chris Black
  • Bill Jordan
  • Ernie Fink
  • Nancy Frederes
  • Deb Pecoraro
  • Katie Scott
  • Wendy Kerr-Vine
  • Anne Bulman
  • Bernie Schuster
  • JR Sharkey
  • Dawn Wooster
  • Dolores Fox
  • Kathy LaManna
  • Barrie Krochmalech
  • Vita Barci
  • Cathy Rich
  • Wendy Freida
  • Kathy Parks
  • Amy Voorhees